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1974 Soviet Top League

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Vysshaya Liga
Season1974
Dates12 April – 21 November 1974
ChampionsDynamo Kyiv
6th top-tier title
RelegatedKairat Alma-Ata
Nistru Kishinev
European CupDynamo Kyiv
Cup Winners' CupArarat Yerevan
UEFA CupSpartak Moscow
Chernomorets Odessa
Top goalscorerOleg Blokhin (20)
1973
1975

The 1974 Soviet Top League was the 36th season of the Soviet top tier football competitions. It also was the 4th season since the establishing of Vysshaya Liga (Soviet Top League) in place of the Soviet Class A competition.

The league's title was contested by 16 teams, and Dynamo Kyiv won the championship which was their sixth title. The last season's champions Ararat placed fifth trailing 8 points. The newly promoted Chernomorets placed third qualifying for the continental competitions for the first time.

Teams

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Pre-season promotion

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Teams promoted from the 1973 Soviet First League:

Pre-season relegation

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Teams relegated to the 1974 Soviet First League:

  • Dinamo Minsk – the 15th place (ending their 14 seasons stay in the top-flight)
  • SKA Rostov-na-Donu – the 16th place (ending their 15 seasons stay in the top-flight)

Managers

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Club Head coach
Ararat Yerevan Nikita Simonyan
Dynamo Kyiv Valeriy Lobanovskyi
Dynamo Moscow Gavriil Kachalin
Spartak Moscow Nikolay Gulyayev
Dinamo Tbilisi Givi Chokheli (until August)
Mikhail Yakushin (from August)
Shakhter Donetsk Yuriy Zakharov (until August)
Vladimir Salkov (from August)
Zaria Voroshilovgrad Vsevolod Blinkov (until July)
Yevhen Pestov (from July)
Dnepr Dnepropetrovsk Viktor Kanevsky
Kairat Alma-Ata Artem Falyan
CSKA Moscow Vladimir Agapov
Zenit Leningrad German Zonin
Pakhtakor Tashkent Vyacheslav Solovyov
Torpedo Moscow Valentin Ivanov
Karpaty Lvov Valentin Babukin (until September)
Ernest Yust (from September)
Chernomorets Odessa Akhmed Aleskerov
Nistru Kishenev Viktor Korolkov

League standings

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Dynamo Kyiv (C) 30 14 12 4 49 24 +25 40 Qualification for European Cup first round
2 Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Spartak Moscow 30 15 9 6 41 23 +18 39 Qualification for UEFA Cup first round
3 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Chornomorets Odessa 30 12 11 7 35 31 +4 35
4 Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Torpedo Moscow 30 13 7 10 35 28 +7 33
5 Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic Ararat Yerevan 30 11 10 9 37 28 +9 32 Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup first round
6 Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Dynamo Moscow 30 10 11 9 42 33 +9 31
7 Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Zenit Leningrad 30 8 15 7 36 41 −5 31
8 Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic Pakhtakor Tashkent 30 10 10 10 45 44 +1 30
9 Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic Dinamo Tbilisi 30 8 14 8 29 34 −5 30
10 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 30 9 11 10 31 39 −8 29
11 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Karpaty Lviv 30 8 12 10 33 33 0 28
12 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Shakhtar Donetsk 30 8 12 10 31 35 −4 28
13 Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic CSKA Moscow 30 7 12 11 28 33 −5 26
14 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Zarya Voroshilovgrad 30 8 10 12 32 41 −9 26
15 Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic Kairat Alma-Ata (R) 30 8 10 12 37 47 −10 26 Relegation to First League
16 Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic Nistru Kishinev (R) 30 4 8 18 32 59 −27 16
Source: [citation needed]
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Results

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Home \ Away ARA CHO CSK DNI DYK DYN DTB KAI KAR NIS PAK SHA SPA TOR ZAR ZEN
Ararat Yerevan 2–0 3–2 1–1 0–0 2–2 2–2 1–0 1–1 2–1 3–1 2–0 2–0 0–1 4–2 4–0
Chornomorets Odessa 2–1 1–0 2–2 3–3 0–0 2–2 3–3 2–0 5–1 1–0 1–0 1–0 1–0 2–1 2–0
CSKA Moscow 0–1 1–0 2–1 1–1 1–1 0–1 0–0 2–0 1–1 1–1 1–1 1–2 1–0 1–3 0–1
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 1–0 1–1 1–0 0–0 3–1 0–0 1–0 3–1 2–0 2–0 1–0 1–4 0–0 0–2 1–1
Dynamo Kyiv 2–0 2–0 2–0 3–1 2–0 2–0 2–0 1–1 4–2 1–1 1–0 1–0 2–0 5–0 5–0
Dynamo Moscow 2–3 1–1 1–2 3–1 1–2 0–0 1–2 2–1 1–0 4–0 3–0 1–1 0–1 5–0 3–1
Dinamo Tbilisi 1–0 2–0 1–3 0–0 0–0 0–0 1–1 0–0 4–2 1–1 1–0 0–1 0–0 3–2 1–1
Kairat Alma-Ata 0–0 0–0 0–0 1–0 2–1 2–1 5–0 0–2 2–0 4–3 0–0 0–4 1–1 2–1 2–2
Karpaty Lviv 1–1 1–1 1–1 4–3 0–0 4–1 0–0 2–2 3–0 2–0 1–1 1–1 1–0 0–0 3–2
Nistru Kishinev 2–2 1–2 3–3 1–2 1–0 0–1 1–3 4–2 1–0 0–1 2–2 1–0 0–3 0–0 1–1
Pakhtakor Tashkent 0–0 0–1 4–1 5–0 3–3 0–0 2–1 4–1 1–0 3–0 3–1 0–3 2–2 4–2 1–1
Shakhtar Donetsk 1–0 2–1 0–0 2–1 2–2 0–0 1–1 5–2 2–1 2–1 2–0 0–0 0–2 0–0 2–2
Spartak Moscow 1–0 3–0 2–1 0–0 2–0 0–0 1–0 1–0 2–1 2–1 4–1 1–3 0–0 2–2 1–1
Torpedo Moscow 1–0 0–0 0–2 3–0 1–1 0–2 4–1 3–1 0–1 4–3 0–1 2–1 3–1 2–1 2–1
Zarya Voroshilovgrad 1–0 0–0 0–0 1–1 1–1 1–2 2–1 1–0 2–0 1–1 1–1 2–0 0–1 3–0 0–1
Zenit Leningrad 0–0 2–0 0–0 1–1 2–0 3–3 1–2 3–2 1–0 1–1 2–2 1–1 1–1 1–0 2–0
Source: [citation needed]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

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20 goals
16 goals
13 goals
12 goals
11 goals
10 goals

References

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